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The Living Daylights, a review by Tom

Title: The Living Daylights
Year: 1987
Director: John Glen
Rating: FSK-12
Length: 125 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: German: Dolby Digital Surround, Spanish: Dolby Digital Surround, English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: English, German, Spanish

Stars:Extras:
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Music Videos
Scene Access
Trailers

I really looked forward seeing this Bond movie again. When I remember correctly, this was one of the first Bond movies which I had seen. I started relatively late watching Bond movies. The first that I saw in the theater was "Tomorrow Never Dies".

Probably I am the only one here who thinks that, but in my opinion, "The Living Daylights" is one of the best James Bond movies of all. Probably my favourite. Also Timothy Dalton is my favourite James Bond actor.
I like his more serious (compared to Moore) and less chauvinistic (compared to Connery) Bond.
Also Timothy Dalton had in my opinion just the right age to play a believable Bond here.

I particulary like that there is only one Bond girl (not counting the girl from the pre-opening titles sequence), and that the romantic storyline is present throughout the movie.

Even though the new Moneypenny is inferior to Lois Maxwell's Moneypenny, I like that the character seems to have more involved in the operation of MI6 than being the secretary to M.

Rating:

(From James Bond Marathon on May 4th, 2009)

House of Wax (2005), a review by snowcat

(From Emma's Film Reviews (snowcat) on October 18th, 2009)

Tom's Random Reviews, a review by Tom

Title: Blood Ties: The Complete Series
Year: 2006
Director:
Rating: 15
Length: 950 Min.
Video: Widescreen 1.78
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles:

Stars:


Plot:
After witnessing a horrific demonic murder at the side of a Toronto roadway, private investigator Vicki Nelson finds herself on a collision course with another citizen investigating the case. He is Henry Fitzroy - former Duke of Richmond, cutting-edge graphic novelist and 470-year-old vampire.

To solve the brutal murder, Vicki finds herself collaborating, against her better judgement, with the suave and seductive Fitzroy. The relationship soon progresses beyond a purely professional arrangement, complicating her long term love affair with ex-partner Detective Mike Celluci... and pretty well everything else in her life.

I enjoyed watching this series, even though most episodes are rather average. But there are some really good ones. My favorite is 5:55, which is a "Groundhog Day" episode (a rather good one at that).
On one hand I am glad that it is only one season, but sadly it ends in a big cliffhanger character-wise for all three main characters.

It doesn't hurt that Christina Cox is hot. I thought it was interesting, to have her character be an ex-cop who dropped out because of her eye condition. She is developing tunnel vision. But sadly they use this handicap very sparingly, except in the first half of the series, where they seem to have it mentioned at least once per episode, but never really be a point in the plot.
Dylan Neal is great as her ex-partner, who must struggle between being sucked into her new world (supernatural crime fighting), and still having to live the life of a regular cop and its responsibilities.
Kyle Schmid does also a great job as the vampire Henry.

#	Episode	Rating
01	Blood Price Part One
02	Blood Price Part Two
03	Bad Juju
04	Gifted
05	Deadly Departed
06	Love Hurts
07	Heart of Ice
08	Heart of Fire
09	Stone Cold
10	Necrodrome
11	Post Partum
12	Norman
13	D.O.A.
14	Wild Blood
15	5:55
16	Bugged
17	The Devil You Know
18	Drawn and Quartered
19	Wrapped
20	The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
21	We'll Meet Again
22	Deep Dark

(From Tom's Random Reviews on November 25th, 2009)